Sentences with phrase «during flat years»

Two of the negative years occurred during flat years in the market when the carrying cost of the hedge wasn't offset by gains in the equity market or premium collection income (2011 and 2015).

Not exact matches

The employment rate for 25 - 54 year old men fell during the recession, recovered somewhat, but has been flat over the past few years.

The favourites were flat during those years, while the despised stocks gained 6 % annually.

It's going to get lonely during the 10 years it may take to build a business, and you'll certainly face rejection, lack of results and hard times while you're on the ominously flat part of the business curve.

The brand has been generating a lot of buzz among the fashonista crowd for its on - trend but budget - friendly pieces, but during its most recent quarter saw flat sales compared to a year ago.

Given the maturity of this medium, spending on email remained flat for years, though its efficiency did draw some B2B dollars during the economic recession, according to a new eMarketer report, «B2B Email Marketing: Benchmarks and Best Practices for 2014.»

The overall supply - and - demand situation in Dallas has been relatively flat over the last few years, but inventory increased a bit during 2017.

More importantly, according to LBMA data loco London gold holdings during Q1 this year were relatively flat.

National accounts data record a GDP decline of 17 per cent over the first two quarters of 1998, after a flat performance during the previous year, and imports have continued to fall rapidly.

«Our advantages should be gained during years or periods when the market is flat or is down.

During Early Proterozoic times (from 1688 - 1600 million years ago) the area was covered by thick, flat - lying sandstones.

Sir Alex Ferguson failed to keep hold of Pogba during his time in charge of Man United, the French international leaving for Italy for a nominal fee when his contract demands were turned down flat by the club, but now van Gaal hopes to lure the 21 year old back to the English top tier.

The commissioners said that the park district has not reduced any services, programs or staff during the three years of flat taxes.

The bellwether S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were essentially flat, and major foreign indexes were all down (some sharply) during the same period, after a volatile year marked by weak global economic growth, slumping U.S. corporate profits and uncertainty about the outlook for the China and the European union.

Investment in the semiconductor industry was flat in Q2, and investment in networking companies, a favorite during the Internet - boom years, showed another drop in a long string of investment declines.

Because oxygen is critical to many forms of life and geochemical processes, numerous models and indirect proxies for the oxygen content in the atmosphere have been developed over the years, but there was no consensus on whether oxygen concentrations were rising, falling or flat during the past million years (and before fossil fuel burning).

But 32 flint tools discovered in a cliff side during low tide near Pakefield point to humans living in the vicinity of its tidal flats and rivers around 700,000 years ago.

My love of woven shoes might have stemmed from seeing these Paul Andrews flats on Instagram during fashion week last year.

First, I absolutely love skinnies and firmly believe that they are flattering on every body type (here are the best skinny jeans for your body type), comfortable, can be worn throughout the entire year (here is my look of white skinny jeans during snow winter days), and can be dressed up and down by simply switching from flats to heels.

It's during this portion of the film that Gervais offers up what just might be one of the most daring and flat - out hilarious interludes found within a mainstream comedy in recent years, as Mark essentially invents religion after convincing his dying mother that life doesn't end after you die.

Seth Meyers» opening monologue joke about Harvey Weinstein's absence fell a little flat at first, but then he made is so much better (or so much worse, depending on how morbid you like your humor) by reminding everyone that he'd be back in 20 years as the only person to ever be booed during the In Memoriam section.

Barnes and Noble reported during a recent earnings report that booksales will will be flat this year, which is better than the projected decline they made late last year.

Budgets, in many cases, have remained flat during the past several years, leading two - thirds of libraries to re-allocate funding from elsewhere in their materials budget in order to build their ebook collections.

A flat tax of 30 percent was imposed on U.S. source capital gains in the hands of nonresident alien individuals physically present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year.

«We're forecasting flat credit card usage month - over-month during the holiday season and while retailers will do better this year, last year was a low bar due to the government shutdown,» Christopher adds.

(i have heard that it's spread out over years) 2) My Builder got OC in Feb 2016 and i got my flat registered on 26 March 2016 so by that time the option of claiming the deduction at TDS has gone away, Can i get the entire interest paid for 2015 - 16 be deducted and claim the tax refund during my IT return?

During its most recent earnings call, CMP noted that market pricing for most of the crops it serves has been healthy in 2015, helping keep SOP prices almost flat year - to - date despite volumes that are down 16 %.

During the course of a year, a particular stock can soar to amazing heights and gut wrenching lows before ending the year flat.

Mortgage rates were more or less flat during the week ended May 10, with the average rate for a three - year fixed - rate mortgage (FRM) averaging...

During this «flat» period, the average rate change from one week to the next was only two basis points (0.02 %), within the 30 - year fixed mortgage category.

Features AAII Stock Screens 2015 Review: Small - Cap Wins During a Large - Cap Year Though the relatively flat year favored large - cap growth stocks, the Foolish Small Cap 8 came out on Year Though the relatively flat year favored large - cap growth stocks, the Foolish Small Cap 8 came out on year favored large - cap growth stocks, the Foolish Small Cap 8 came out on top.

As you can see, there were strong cynical bull and bear markets during this time that caused the market to essentially remain flat for 16 years.

The high yield new issuance calendar of $ 72.7 billion during the quarter was flat sequentially ($ 72.5 billion in the 4th quarter of 2017) and down year - over-year ($ 98.7 billion in the 1st quarter of 2017).

While the company held its dividend flat during the financial crisis, it has otherwise increased its dividend every year since the mid-1990s and currently yields 3.5 %.

Although the months of May through November are considered the prime time for flats fishing, the fish are present during the entire year and any days that are calm are considered ideal times to be on the water in search for tarpon.

Given all its coverage in year - end lists, I don't need to belabor anything, but I just want folks to know this — when you slide between worlds, going through some interdimensional crack as a 2D stained - glass version of yourself, the music goes «flat» during the transition.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Climate skeptics often argue that, during the last fifteen years, global temperatures have been nearly flat and that climate models are unable to predict or explain this pattern.

B. Over the same time interval there have been periods during which the reported «Annual Temperature of the Earth (TOE)» has increased, others during which it decreased, and yet others, like the most recent 15 - 20 years over which it has remained statistically flat.

This is the first time in the past 40 years in which emissions have fallen or remained flat during a time of economic growth

But looking at the big picture shown in the graph I posted, I see quite few time periods where there were five or ten years of flat or declining temperatures (including several during the satellite era) very much like what we're seeing today.

The Mann reconstruction appears much flatter than other reconstructions before 1900, and it seems that NAS see pretty good evidence for a «Little Ice Age» and reasonable evidence for a «Medieval Warm Period» (though they think it's plausible that the last 25 years were warmer than any comparable period during the last 1100 years).

If we choose a starting point of late 1997 or early 1999, temperatures have been flat during the past 15 and 17 years.

The latter, of course, is characterized by many short term peaks, dips, and flat intervals, with recent years unexceptional in this regard, but the critical issue is the extent to which multidecadal influences are competing to explain the rise during this time period.

Dr. Judith Curry recently compared five data sets of global temperatures and found that all but one show the warming trend has been essentially flat for various periods exceeding 10 years in length during the past 18 years.

Now humans have added some to the atmosphere, but during this 150 or more years long process, T has gone up while CO2 was going down, down while it was up and flat while both rising and falling.

AGW is by no means disproven by the last 15 to 18 years of arguably flat temperatures, just as it was by no means proven by the temperature rise that occurred during the ENSO event or since the end of the LIA or the Dalton minimum.

This time it's an anecdote about «extraordinary warming that took place along what is now the northern sea route during the first half of the 16th century», that is flat useless without information showing in which years let alone decades the warming occurred.

Other studies have shown that the grid absorbed pretty well all the big flat screen TVs that Americans bought in recent years (and those are mostly turned on during peak demand, not off peak like EVs).

Now lots of lawyers don't bill by the month or by the week or by the year, lots of lawyers bill either flat fees or hourly fees, but during that time you still need to make sure that person sees values and if you're going to have a relationship with that client over time, you need to make sure that they see value in staying connected to you or staying friends with you and maybe that's as simple as doing a monthly or a weekly newsletter like Noah does, but you need to make sure that they believe that it is valuable to stay in your circle so that their ready to hire you when it's time to hire you.